The
following article is a direct translation from the classic
genealogical and heraldic reference "Herharz Polski" by
Kasper Niesiecki SJ. Lipsk edition 1839-46. Translated by William F
Hoffman.
The Bielikoiczes in Brest-Litovsk
use these arms: they have three rods or a shell arranged in the form
you see above. Of these Bielikoiczes Dawid, Rzeczycki stolnik [master
of the pantry] prospered in the year 1680; his son was Jan,
by Zofja z Mielanowa of the Nalecz arms. In the Volhynia metryka [register]
for 1528 I read of a local Landowner, Bazyly Bielikowicz. Neither
Paprocki nor Okolski wrote about them.
Krasicki writes that there are Bielikoiczes who
later changed their name to Bielikowicz, and they exist to this day
in the Brzesc Kujawski area. - Wieladek writes about them;
Kuropatnicki places them in his work; I found in a 1764 constitution
that Stefan Jan Bielikowicz, town clerk, representative of Braclaw
county, and Vehmgericht judge, signed his name to the election of
King Stanislaw August for that same county of Braclaw. There also
are the signatures of Franciszek, Braclaw cup-bearer, and Wincenty,
Braclaw judge from the same county. - Stefan, Braclaw town clerk,
and Leon, equerry, circa 1763. - Franciszek, cup-bearer of
Braclaw county, signed an act of general confederation of the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania in 1764. There, too, was Samuel Bielikowicz, and
Leonard, Braclaw town clerk. circa 1769, and Adam, Braclaw straznik
[guard, custodian]. - Ignacy, Kamieniec canon. - Antoni, His
Majesty's chamberlain, was a representative at the 1784 sejm in
Grodno. - Jozef, Braclaw builder. - Alexander. Livonian equerry.
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